Japan Germany: Titled Observing the 70th Anniversary of the End of WWII--A New Prospect for Peace and Democracy in Japan and Germany, the symposium was organized by Japan Genron NPO, an independent think tank, and the Tokyo office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a nonprofit German political organization, according to Asahi Shimbun. The symposium was supported by The Asahi Shimbun. The experts met at a symposium on June 4 in Tokyo to discuss war-related historical recognition issues and how Japan and Germany have faced up to their Axis power pasts. In the meeting keynote address, Matthias Bartke, a member of Germany parliament, outlined the path of his nation postwar years. In 1968, however, student protest movements flared up in Germany, denouncing politicians in office with Nazi-affiliated pasts. Bartke said in the years immediately after the end of the war, the German people were reluctant to look squarely at the sins of the Nazi regime.
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